Why Doesn't Global Site Search Work?

I am really getting fed up with Global Site Search giving such poor results. I am finally deciding to write to you in case there is a way of fixing it.

Example: I just did a search for "gay & OK". The article I was looking for was at the bottom of the third page. With about 43 items per page, that worked out to a search result of more than 120 incorrect results.

The exact title of the article is "I'm Gay and It's OK", so I did a search for that. See screenshot

Even with the EXACT spelling of the title, the article was 37th! Now that's just crazy! See screenshot This only shows the bottom part of the search but it will give you an idea.

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I was doing some tests with the search results and I wasn't quite able to replicate the same issue you're having with my default setup but after I imported your posts on my installation (it's a local one so no one except for me can access them) I was able to replicate it.

I'm not sure what could be causing this so I have created report for our developers to investigate this further and check what's affecting search results in this way.

It happens because these posts sort only by creation date. And it doesn't matter if you're looking for something with the EXACT spelling of the title or not. I'll ping our developers for changing it. Also, you can try to use attached patch. For that, please, replace {wordpress_folder}/wp-content/plugins/post-indexer/classes/networkquery.php file to attached file via FTP.
Let me know how it goes for you.

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